An alternative to stepwise selection of variables is best subset selection. The procedure uses the branch and bound algorithm of Furnival and Wilson (1974) to find a specified number of best models ...

Let $\pi _{1},\ldots,\pi _{k}$ be k independent normal populations with means $\mu _{1},\ldots,\mu _{k}$ and variances $\sigma _{1}^{2},\ldots,\sigma _{k}^{2 ...

Objectives. Measures of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related knowledge that have good psychometric properties are needed to evaluate the impact of educational interventions, particularly ...